The Get Busy Living Manifesto

What exactly is a manifesto?

The definition from Webster is “a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer”.

Long before I had this blog or even an iPhone app, I created my own manifesto after so many years of not doing anything about the life I had. Sad, frustrated, and fed up, I came home from work one night, typed it, and I put it on my wall.

I didn’t think too long about what to write. I just wrote whatever came to mind.

I reminded myself to stop wasting time. For so many years I wanted change, but didn’t do anything about it. I needed to start making the changes I wanted. I needed to it today, tomorrow, and everyday until I reached my ideal life. No more just trying half way. I needed to be fully committed.

From that moment, the manifesto reminded me every day to remember what I need to do. I’d see it in the morning and before I went to bed. It kept me focused when I felt unmotivated.

It gave me the kick the ass that I so truly needed.

I declared on paper what I was going to do, and I had to make sure I followed through.

Now I want to help kick your ass.

A Manifesto for You

I wanted to create another manifesto for the Get Busy Living community. A way to inspire you if you’re feeling stuck in life.

Use this manifesto to guide how you should approach life.

Use it as a reminder of what you live for and what you stand for.

Want a copy to print out? Just download the PDF file right here. (click to open in new window or right click to save)

Print it out and put it in a place where you can see it every day.

If you love it, please spread the word. Tweet it. Facebook it. Pin it. Google+ it. I know there’s many out there that need something to inspire and motivate them. There are lots of people out there who feel stuck in life. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Benny – Home run sir. I really love the PDF. Got it in my cube to motivate me to make the escape from cube nation. The whole life is short really hit home with me as I have been to four funerals in the past two weeks and had my best friend almost die from a large blood clot to the lung.
Keeping your goals always in front of you is the only way to stay positive and remind you why you are doing what you are to get ahead. Like you said in the post ( Feal the fear and do it anyways. My other favorite quote is ( the other side of fear is freedom) Thanks for starting my week off with such great stuff.
Remember it’s always better to take action and revise latter.

Amazing and inspirational list, I have a similar thing hung up on post-it notes all around my laptop. Love the one about “feel the fear, then do it anyway”. Fear is what holds most people back in my opinion…..

‘Take responsibility’- that’s what hits you and me. It’s really when you admit your faults, your mistakes and to move on can we really reach our goals. We can’t waste time on resentment- I’m actually talking to myself! Let’s get busy living!

What a great manifesto you have put together here…and how nice of you to share it with every one in a PDF. I am most definitely sharing this on fb and twitter, and printing one for myself. Feel the fear and do it anyways is a phrase I hear quite often and that I like to add to: it’s usually the scariest decisions we make that end up being the best ones.

Great manifesto, Benny! Wouldn’t it be great if everyone sat down and created their own personal manifesto or sorts? It would require everyone to think about their lives, their dreams, their character, their personal growth, where they want to go and where they want to be at the end of their lives. Things most people just don;t think much about.

Great job putting this one together. I can tell it was a work of love. Thanks for all the inspiration!

Great job Benny! I think it’s very important for us to have reminders like this surrounding us esp. for the days we don’t always feel like doing better for ourselves. I have a manifesto vision board and I def want to add a few of these lines to it (in art form). Keep up the great work 🙂